Pera is a genus of plants in the family Peraceae native to tropical America, from southern Mexico and the West Indies south as far as Paraguay.[1][2] It first described as a genus in 1784.[3][4]
| Pera | |
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| Fruits of Pera glabrata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Peraceae |
| Genus: | Pera Mutis |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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- Species[1]
- Pera androgyna - Distrito Federal in Brazil
- Pera anisotricha - Brazil
- Pera aperta - Panama
- Pera arborea Central America, Colombia, Venezuela
- Pera barbellata - S Mexico, N Central America
- Pera benensis - Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, NW Brazil
- Pera bicolor - NW Brazil, Venezuela, 3 Guianas
- Pera bumeliifolia - Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola
- Pera citriodora - S Venezuela, N Brazil
- Pera coccinea - Pará, Mato Grosso
- Pera colombiana - Colombia
- Pera decipiens - N South America
- Pera distichophylla - N South America
- Pera eiteniorum - Brazil
- Pera ekmanii - Cuba
- Pera elliptica - Bolivia
- Pera furfuracea - Bahia
- Pera glabrata - Trinidad, tropical S America
- Pera glomerata - Tortuga Island in Haiti
- Pera heteranthera - Brazil
- Pera longipes - Cuba
- Pera manausensis - Amazonas in Brazil
- Pera membranacea - Pará, Maranhão
- Pera microcarpa - Cuba
- Pera oppositifolia - Cuba
- Pera orientensis - Cuba
- Pera ovalifolia - Cuba
- Pera pallidifolia - Cuba
- Pera polylepis - Cuba
- Pera pulchrifolia - Amazonas in Brazil
- Pera rubra - Rio de Janeiro
- Pera tomentosa - S Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia
- Species[1]
moved to Chaetocarpus
- P. echinocarpa - Chaetocarpus echinocarpus
References
edit- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Mutis, José Celestino Bruno. 1784. Kongl. Vetenskaps Academiens Nya Handlingar 5: 299
- ^ Tropicos, genus Pera
External links
edit- Peraceae in Stevens, P. F. (2001 onwards). Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 7, May 2006.
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